So just a couple of hours, and then you'll never have to deal with me again.

Caroline: Is that what you think I want?

Stefan: I don't know, you tell me.

[Music playing, and they're standing there exchanging glances.]

Caroline: Okay.

(Stefan leaves Caroline and Ivy in the dorm room.)

Ivy: When do we eat?

(Caroline slowly looks at her stupidly.)

[ IN WHITMORE, ALARIC'S CLASS ]

(Alaric has written 'HOMECOMING' on the board and he underlines it.)

Alaric: Homecoming,

(he reads, turning toward his class-filled room.)

All right.

By a show of hands, who knows the supernatural origin of tonight's homecoming party?

(No one raises their hands, and Elena gives Alaric a small wave and a smile.)

Alaric: A civil war soldier Nathan Whitmore horribly disfigured throughout countless battles somehow survived them all just so he could get home to the woman he loved, and when he finally got home to his farm, he found her in bed with his brother, and did what any sane man would do...

He murdered his brother in cold blood and then chased the love of his life out into the cornfields. Tyler(uninterested, turns to Liv): I got to run some gear over to the football stadium later.

If you want, I could pick you up after, and we could go together.

Liv: You mean, like a date?

(Tyler shakes his head, not exactly a yes, but a maybe.)

Liv: Because definitely not.

Alaric: But the legend goes...

That lady Whitmore is out on this night every year dressed in white, covered in her lover's blood, running through the cornfields, screaming for her life.

(All the students look at each other.)

And the moral of the story is?

Do not fall in love, especially with your brother's girl.

(He cuts a glance at Elena, who rolls her eyes, knowing what he's talking about.)

All right, kids.

You have a fun night tonight.

Be safe.

(All the students close their books and leave, except for Elena, who walks toward Alaric.)

Elena: You know, that cautionary tale would have had more of an impact on me about two weeks ago.

Alaric: Damon may be gone, but I can still find pleasure in judging his life choices.

Speaking of which, have you changed your mind about me compelling you to forget about him yet? Elena: Why do you say, "yet," as if I'm gonna wake up one day and realize that my life is over if I don't have the traumatic memories of loving a serial killer?

Alaric: Had to ask.

Elena: You know, maybe you're right.

Maybe I am making a huge mistake, or maybe I got a very valuable piece of advice from myself about how to be happy and I intend on taking it.

Am I gonna see you at the party tonight?

Alaric: You know, I'm waiting on the mixer for thirtysomething vampires just back from the dead. Less of a crowd.

Elena: Come on, Ric.

You are like one hoodie and 3 missed haircuts away from becoming Professor Shane.

I know I burn in the sun, we covered compulsion and snatch, eat, erase.

(She looks at the window.)

Look, it's getting dark.

Let's go party.

You can teach me how to eat someone without killing them.

Caroline: Stefan will be here very soon, and then you can do whatever you want...WITH HIM.

Ivy: Can we at least play a board game or do something non-vampire related.

Caroline(impressed): Finally, a good idea.

(She stands and heads for the cabinet.)

What kind of game do you want to play?

Ivy: I don't know, scrabble?

Caroline(oblivious to the fact that Ivy is standing right behind her): I have tournament, classic, and travel-sized.

(Ivy's hands twine around Caroline's neck and snaps it, Caroline falls to the ground and Ivy speeds out of the dorm.)

[ CORN MAZE ]

(A girl, holding up a torch, wearing dirty white dress with blood coating the front of it is screaming hysterically as she darts through the corn field, the girl reaching an open section, meets a few teenagers standing around. It appears she was pretending for the theme of homecoming. The girl uses the torch to light the bonfire, which is followed by cheers. Elena is whooping as Liam comes out from behind her carrying a red cup and a black one, Liam taps her with the cup and she turns, reaching for the red cup but he pulls back.)

(Elena turns and sees Jo, whose white doctor jacket was replaced with something else, her hair was pulled back and her face full of makeup, she's looking around as if she's bored.)

Liam: I thought the lab coat was permanently attached.

Elena(smiling mischievously, turns back to Liam): I invited her.

(she leans forward, scrunching her nose secretly)

It's kind of a setup, only neither party knows about it.

(Elena snatches the red cup.)

Elena: Come on.

(She uses a country accent.)

It's time to get your Kansas on.

(They both head into the Corn Maze, which the pretender had just come from.)

[ OUTSIDE ]

(The sky is dark, Caroline is outside, holding a phone to her ear.)

Caroline(while walking): Stefan, hey.

This is the third message alerting you that your psychotic little she-vamp has gone AWOL, and if you hadn't noticed, it's dark outside, so every dead sorority girl tonight is officially on you.

(She hangs up the phone.)

[ IN WHITMORE COLLEGE ]

(Alaric is alone in the classroom, he is sitting in one of the students's seat as picks up a bottle of bourbon from beside him, he has a stack of papers on his lap. Alaric twists open the cap and takes a swig of Bourbon. When he's finished, he looks down and sees that Stefan is standing in the doorway.)

Stefan: Grading on the curve, huh?

(Alaric doesn't smile, just closes the Bourbon)

Alaric: You know this barely makes a dent.

(He's staring at the Bourbon.)

(Stefan looks down, pursing his lips.)

Alaric: Can't fault me for trying, though.

You want some?

(He looks up at Stefan.)

Stefan (stepping further into the classroom): No, I just...came here to get one of these from Luke.

(He holds up a daylight ring.)

Alaric (placing the Bourbon on the floor): Let me guess... You played the 'Damon is dead, and it's all your fault,' card.

(Stefan takes a moment to look guilty.)

Alaric(angry at Stefan): What do you want, Stefan?

Stefan(steps further more into the room): Enzo turned a vampire when he and Caroline found me.

Alaric(sitting down his pen): You mean your girlfriend, from Savannah.

(Alaric stands, walking over to Stefan.)

The one you falsely led me to believe was a witch who knew how to help Damon and Bonnie?

Stefan:(sighs) Her name is Ivy.

I was hoping you can compel her to get a handle on things, get somewhere far away from me, live a good life.

Alaric(leaning his head forward): Are you asking me to help you with a break up?

Stefan: I'm just asking you to give her a fresh start.

Alaric: You mean give you a fresh start.

(Stefan is silent.)

Alaric: Sorry, Stefan.

It's not that easy-

Stefan: Well it was when you compelled Elena to forget about Damon.

Alaric: Well you forgot about him first, pal.

(Alaric turns away.)

Stefan: He was my brother.

Alaric(turning back to him): Yeah, and he was my best friend....

Why don't you get out of my face before I compel you to be the guy I used to know instead? (And with that, Stefan slowly leaves, looking defeated.)

[ IN THE CITY ]

(A random man is walking to his car, wearing a white T-shirt, he slips his key into the keyhole and he looks up at his reflection in the mirror, he sees Ivy, the man whirls.)

Man: He takes a breath: You scared me.

(But he's smiling.)

Ivy: Really?

That wasn't scary...

(Her tone changes.)

But this is.

(Veins bloom from under her eyes, and she zips forward and bites him, with one booted foot on the car and the other on the ground. She releases him, hands still on his shoulders and smiles.)

Ivy: I snatched, I ate, now...ERASE!

(She's looking directly in his eyes.)

Victim: Erase what?

What the hell are you doing to me?

(Ivy's smile fades.)

Ivy: I-I don't think I did it right.

(She's breathing deeply.)

And I'm still hungry.

Oh god, I am totally going to kill you, uh.

(She looks directly in his eyes.)

You should GO, RUN, SERIOUSLY!

(The guy runs away, leaving Ivy)

Ivy: I suck at this.

[ IN THE WOODS, OTHERWORLDLY ]

(Damon has dug up the ground, and he's standing in the place he'd dug up. Damon continues attacking the inside of the hole with the ax while Bonnie sits on the dirt from the ground.)Bonnie: Hey.

(Kai nearly sets down his backpack when Damon zooms forward and snatches the pack, he tears it open. And begins reading what's inside.)

Damon: Zima, grunge, every Alex Rodriguez rookie card in demand, and a pager.

Really?

(Damon drops the bag on the ground.)

Kai: 555-Hiya-Kai, no way I'm giving those digits up.

Damon: These are the important supplies you needed to get?

(Bonnie is suspiciously watching the two from the dirt she's sitting on.)

Kai: Look.

The future sound great, all right?

I'm superexcited about the Internet, but 1994 has been my home for most of my life.

I'd hate to get homesick.

So let's get down there...

Bonnie (standing): No.

(She walks forward, pushing Damon out of the way, who attempted to stop her.)

We are not going anywhere until you show me the spell.

Kai: Okay.

(He stands still, basically saying that they aren't going.)

Damon: Are we literally not going anywhere?

Bonnie(pursing her lips): Fine, you don't want to show me the spell?

Then you can do it yourself.

(Kai smiles, suspiciously.)

Bonnie: You...want my magic.

(She holds out her arm.)

Take it.

Kai(looking up at Damon): Uh-oh, she's being brave.

Bonnie: I'm serious Kai!

This was your big threat, wasn't it?

If I do the spell and let us out of here, you'll just take my magic, leave me for dead, and do the spell yourself.

So go ahead.

Take all of it.

(Damon looks worried, and Kai looks down at Bonnie.)

Kai: *sighing* Don't mind if I do.

(He slaps both hands on her shoulders and she yelps in pain, nearly going limp in his arms.)Damon: Bonnie?

Bonnie(managing to speak): It's okay, he won't kill me.

Damon: Doesn't look like that from here.

(Bonnie grunts in pain again.)

Bonnie: OW. Damon

(extremely worried): Hey!

Bonnie.

(Bonnie's face contorts with pain.)

Damon: Whoa, hey, guys.

(And when they continue.): STOP.

(Kai releases Bonnie with a mischievous smile.)

Bonnie(trying to catch her breath and when she finally does): He doesn't..know the spell. Which means, we don't need him.

(She raises her hand.)

Motus.

(The ax Damon was using to attack the ground soars through the air before burying itself into Kai's chest, whose eyes widen as he falls on his back.)

Damon: NO!

No, BONNIE?

(After a while he taps her bare shoulder with an impressed look.)

Damon(turning away): Great work, Bonnie.

[ CORN MAZE ]

(Elena and Liam are still carrying cups as they enter a section of the corn fields.)

Elena: Oh, I think I recognize this scarecrow.

(She points at one.)

Liam: You said that about...every scarecrow.

Elena: Okay, well then, we are officially lost.

Liam: Actually, it's two lefts and three rights.

I pulled up a satellite image of this maze before I came.

Elena(tilting her head): Oh.

Competitive type.

Got it.

Liam(smiling): Question is, am I your type?

Elena (widening her mouth): Honestly, no...

(Liam's smile fades.)

Elena: But people can change, right?

Liam(stops walking): Uh-oh.

Elena (turning with a smile): What?

Liam: You're still hung up on your ex.

(Elena makes a face.)

Liam: Overly ambitious premed student, desperate to become a doctor so she can prove to the guy who dumped her that he messed up big time.

Elena(impassively and nonchalantly): Actually, he died.

Liam (eyes widen): Or that.

I'm... I'm sorry, I thought Stefan was...

Elena (quickly): No.

Liam(looking down): Yikes.

Elena(scrunching up her face): Yeah.

It's ok, it's ok.

(She takes a long breath.)

His name was Damon, but... tonight isn't about him, it's about you and me.

(Liam smiles, taking her hand and leading her away. The girl who was running through the woods with blood on her shirt scares Jo with a loud scream.)

Jo: Ahh, NOT COOL!

Alaric(sees her and walks over): Heh, heh.

Jo: Oh, Professor Bourbon.

Perfect timing.

(They smile at each other.)

Alaric: Imagine you see a lot worse in E.R.

Jo: Everything I see there is natural, gross but natural.

Zombies, ghosts, the undead...not cool.

Alaric(making a face): Good to know.

(He takes a breath.)

You haven't seen Elena around here, have you?

She...basically blackmailed me into coming tonight.

Jo: Oh, let me guess, she told you to get out of the classroom, live a little?

Yeah...

Alaric: We're being set up.

Ok.

Jo: Now why don't you be a gentleman and get me the hell out of here because we are way too old for this party, and I need a drink stat.

(Alaric pulls his flask from his pocket, holding it out to her.)

Jo (accepting it): I thought you were a germaphobe.

Alaric: I'll make an exception.

(They walk off together.)

[ ON THE ROAD ]

(Tyler is driving his truck, it's dark, and his cellphone chimes and he picks it up and reads a text from Liv.)

"Party's lame, You got 5 minutes until I'm outta here."

(Tyler smiles at it, and when he looks up, the guy that Ivy bit comes running in front of the car. Tyler swerves the car to avoid hitting him, but catches him anyway and Tyler loses conscious while the car speeds into the cornfield on the side of the road, in other words, the Corn Maze.)

[ CORN MAZE ]

(Elena is giggling with Liam by her side.)

Elena: See, I told you it would be fun.

(Elena and Liam walk past Alaric and Jo.)

Alaric: Speak of the devil.

(Suddenly people are yelping 'watch it!' and 'hey!", Alaric looks up to see what's happening and hears Tyler's car swerving. Tyler's car smashes right into the corn maze where people are. People fall to the ground, screaming.)

[ screen goes black ]

[ CORN MAZE ]

(Tyler grunts as he climbs out of his truck which has been thrown to the side, he looks around, realizing what had just happened.)

Tyler: Oh god.

(He jumps on the ground, still grunting. He leans his back against a tree to breathe before pulling out his cellphone, he was ready to put it to his ear when he hears choking. Tyler looks around and realizes it's the guy he hit, lying in the dirt, blood coming from his mouth. Tyler is shocked, and scared.)

Man: Help.

[ CORN MAZE ]

(Elena awakes in the cornfield, her eyes open. She's on her back, Homecoming is chaotic, people are bleeding, people are yelping for help. Liam is kneeling over the girl dressed as Lady Whitmore, [i]the one who scared Jo and ran through the woods with a torch, There is a wound on her, and Liam is pressing on it. Elena stands up, confused.)[/i]

Liam: Elena!

(When she doesn't answer: Elena! Get over here! (Elena stumbles over, dropping to her knees beside the girl.)

Elena: Oh god, h-ho-how bad is it?

(Liam shakes his head negatively. Elena places her hand over Liam's hands on the wound.)Elena: I got this.

Liam: I'm not sure there's anything you can do.

Elena: I'll do everything that I can, j-just go see if you can help someone else, alright?

(Liam looks at the girl, reluctant to leave.)

Elena: Come on.

(Liam scrambles away, and when Elena is sure he's gone she bites into her wrist, feeds the girl the blood, and when she removes her hand from the wound it's gone. Elena leans forward, looking straight in the girls eyes, compelling her.)

Elena(eyes up close on the screen): Listen to me, you dove out of the way just in time.

You were very lucky.

Now get out of here and take as many people as you can, ok?

Come on.

(She helps the now-healed girl up and when the girl is gone her cellphone buzzes.)

Elena: Tyler?

[ CORN MAZE ]

(Tyler, he is still standing beside the guy he hit.)

Tyler: I was driving the truck, Elena.

Elena: What?

Tyler: This guy ran right in front of me, and he's hurt bad.

If he dies, I'm a werewolf all over again, ok?

I need you to get here.

We're in a ditch.

(He speaks while staring around.)

I don't know where, but I need you here now, so please hurry.

Elena(quickly and squeakily): Tyler you don't understand, you drove right through the maze, there are injured people everywhere.

Tyler (pauses for a second): What the hell am I supposed to do?

Elena (looking around): Ah, Just... listen.

Just hang on.

Um, make sure that you keep him awake.

Assess his injuries while I go find Jo and Alaric.

[CORN MAZE]

(Alaric flips over, a wooden stick coming from a broken border is protruding from his torso, he rips it out.)

Jo: You're bleeding.

Alaric: I'm fine.

Jo (crawling over): No, you're not.

Let me see.

(She raises his shirt and sees that there is no wound, she looks momentarily confused.): Wait, how the hell...?

Alaric: I don't think It's my blood.

(He grabs Jo's arm which is scraped and bleeding.)

Jo: Oh.

Ok.

That's gonna make things more difficult.

Alaric: I really think I should get you out of here.

Jo: No.

That's not an option.

(She grabs a random strip of material and wraps her arm in it.)

You look pale.

Does blood make you squeamish?

Alaric: Yeah.

Something like that.

Jo: Don't worry.

You'll get used to it.

Call 911, follow me.

(She gets up.)

Alaric: Ok.

[ IN THE CITY ]

(Caroline is walking down the street, and she finds the car - the car Ivy had bitten the guy on - and she sees that there is blood on it. Caroline sighs, putting her fists to her head. A light shines on her and she turns, Stefan's red car just parked onto the sidewalk and Stefan steps out.)

Caroline: THANK GOD!

Stefan(rushing forward): You lost her?

Caroline: Oh, so you decided to listen to your messages a million hours later?

No, I didn't lose her, she snapped my neck and what the hell took you so long?

Stefan: I got caught up.

Caroline: You got caught up doing what?

Stefan(a little guilty): Driving halfway out of town.

Caroline(pauses): You were leaving?

Stefan(looks down for a second): I slid Ivy's daylight right under...

Caroline: No.

Stefan: ...your front door...

Caroline: No, I don't care about some stupid ring, Stefan!

Were you seriously about to dump your vampire ex-girlfriend onto my lap, and then just skip town?

Stefan(raising his voice): I'm someone who's trying to start over, and then suddenly you and Enzo show up and now I have hunters on my trail and a brand new vampire who wants to kill me and everyone else in her path! And that's not how someone starts over, Caroline!

Caroline(after a while in a more serene tone): You know what the worst part about all of this is?

Is about a month ago, I wished that Damon would come back.

Because I knew if that happened, that I'd get you back too.

But right now, all I want is for you to just..get back in your car, and go.

(Stefan looks hurt as he walks away from her, leaving Caroline who shuts her eyes and licks her lips as she hears Stefan's car drive away and when he's gone her cellphone buzzes, she puts her phone to her ear.)

Caroline: Where are you?

(Ivy is standing in the road, with her cellphone.)

Ivy: I did a really bad thing.

Caroline: Oh, you mean, break my neck?

Yeah, I noticed.

Ivy: Okay, two bad things.

Look, I'm sorry-

Caroline: (sighs) Tell me exactly where you are and stay put, I'll come get you.

(She leaves.)

[ IN THE WOODS, OTHERWORLDLY ]

(Bonnie is still sitting atop the dirt, except now she has the ascendant in her hand and a grimoire in front of her. Damon is slumped against a tree, chugging clear liquid from a bottle.)

Damon: Mmm.

(Bonnie looks up at this.)

Damon: Mmm, mm, MM.

Bonnie: Can you... stop.

Let me concentrate?

Damon(staring at the bottle): On the bright side, this stuff's not so bad.

(Bonnie sighs, annoyed)

It's fruity, and fizzy.

Bonnie: Damon, I'm working on something...

Damon: On the not-so-bright side, is your intelligence, because you took the only chance of us getting out of here and turned him into a giant....douche-kebab.

(He drinks up.)

Bonnie: Think about it, Damon.

What prison gives an inmate a key?

Damon: Is that a trick question?

(Bonnie pauses)

Damon: Or is this stuff actually starting to kick in.

Bonnie: I think the Gemini coven used a Bennett spell to create this place, what if that's why my Grams sent me here?

Damon(pointing at his face): This is the face I make when I don't understand you.

(he goes cross-eyed and purses his lips)

Bonnie(rolling her eyes and sighing): You know the last thing my Grams said to me..was to stay strong.....what if that was her way of telling me I have the power to get out?

(Damon chugs some more)

I have the ascendant, a massive celestial event to draw from, plus a burning desire to get away from you.

(she points the ascendant at him)

(Damon's smile doesn't reach his eyes, and Bonnie holds up the Ascendant, shutting her eyes.) Bonnie:[Chanting a spell that I can't type down.]

(Damon's fake smile fades when he sees that it might be working.)

Bonnie:[Repeating the spell I can't type down.]

(And...'click!' the claws on the ascendant pull free and twist, Bonnie looks up at Damon as she stumbles to her feet, she lets out a smirk, with wide eyes.)

Bonnie: That's why Kai wouldn't kill me.

He needed a Bennett,...I was his only way out of here.

(Bonnie turns and begins to walk)

Damon(slack-jawed): Whoa, where are you going?

Bonnie(climbing towards the hole Damon had dug open): Home.

Coming?

(Damon looks excited, he looks up at the sun that is slowly darkening from the eclipse.)

[ screen goes black ]

[ CORN MAZE ]

(Tyler is grunting as he attempts to lift his truck off of his victim, and then suddenly the car moves so easily, he looks up and realizes that Liv is using her magic to haul it off of his victim.)

Liv(after a moment of taking in the scene): What happened?

Tyler(sweating and disheveled): I hit this kid in the road.

(Liv squats down over the victim.)

Tyler: Look, it wasn't my fault.

It was an accident.

Liv(after stuttering): That's a good thing, right?

(Tyler looks up at her appallingly.)

Liv: You know what I mean.

Tyler: It doesn't matter.

If he dies, I'm...

(He shakes his head in disbelief.)

Call Elena.

[ CORN MAZE ]

(Jo is aiding someone's wound, tying a cloth around a bleeding leg and Alaric approaches her.)

Alaric: Ambulance is on the way, Jo (from the ground): Good. (Alaric squats with her.)

Jo: Get over here, I need your hands.

(She grabs Alaric's hands and places them on the wound.)

Put your fingers right there, that should stop the bleeding.

(Alaric's face is still as he stares at all the blood.)

Jo: While I get a look at the rest of em'.

(Veins begin to crawl underneath Alaric's eyes.)

Jo: You doing okay?

Alaric (looking away from her): Yeah, I'm fine.

Wow.

Jo: Just keep your finger on that femoral artery.

Alaric: Ok.

Jo: His pulse is still dropping.

Alaric: This isn't your first rodeo?

Jo (still helping the injured man): Listen, I was in the army right out of med school.

Family stuff.

Just had to get away.

(Blood spurts from the wound Alaric was pressing on and he jumps back along with Jo, as Jo continues to hold the wound, veins crawl under his eyes. Elena suddenly rushes over with her cellphone on her ear.)

Jo: Need you to answer my questions as accurately as you can, is there blood?

Liv: Tons.

Jo: Is it still flowing, is he bleeding now?

Tyler(hoarsely): No.

No.

I... it looks like it stopped.

Jo: Is there any coming out of his nose, or his mouth?

Tyler: Yes.

Jo: What color is it?

Is it red, or is it black?

Liv: It's black.

It's really freaking black.

What do we do?

Jo: Take his hand.

(Liv does so, followed by a weird look from Tyler.)

Liv: Now what?

Jo: Just try and keep him comfortable.....

Won't be long now.

(Liv looks up at Tyler sadly, and they both share a look.)

[ UNDERGROUND, OTHERWORLDLY ]

(The sky above is still darkening from the eclipse, underground, Damon is sitting on a rock, and the hole Damon dug is directly under the eclipse so the light will pool through. Damon is staring at Bonnie who is standing directly under the light, he's chugging the his drink. Bonnie uses the Ascendant to slice into her wrist, she then drips the blood onto the Ascendant.) [Hopeful, trailing music begins to play in the background.]

Bonnie(in a soft whisper): Okay...

(She looks up at Damon, who's staring.)

(She breathes hard and she looks up at the blue eclipse light, she shuts her eyes and begins to chant. And just like before, the ascendant clicks and opens. Damon and Bonnie stare hopefully at each other.)

Bonnie: It's time, Damon.

(Damon sits his bottle down, and scrubs his hands together, getting up from the rock.) Damon: Alright...

(he walks over to Bonnie, under the direct light of the eclipse)

...let's get awkward.

(They're both smiling widely. Damon places his hand under Bonnie's.)

Damon: Like this?

Bonnie(slightly-nervously): Yep.

Damon (looks up at Bonnie, his eyes a brilliant blue): (sighs) I'm sure there are about a billion people you'd rather be here with.

(Bonnie smiles.): Not exactly.

(Damon smiles at her back.)

Bonnie: Let's go... AH!

(An arrow zips out of nowhere and catches Bonnie in her stomach, she gets knocked back, Damon is taken by surprise and the ascendant falls with her. Damon whirls to see Kai standing with a crossbow pointed directly at him.)

Kai: Forgetting someone?

(Damon stares incredulously.)

[ screen goes black ]

[ UNDERGROUND, OTHERWORLDLY ]

Kai: Did you really think I hadn't tried to kill myself before?

(Damon looks back at Bonnie, who is grunting in pain.)

Kai: Because I had...

(he reloads his crossbow)

...lots of times, lots of ways.

(Kai aims at Bonnie, while Damon's eyes trail to the ascendant.)

Kai(about the ascendant): Grab that, and the next arrow goes in her heart.

Your choice.

(Bonnie is making a noise in pain. Damon super speeds over to Bonnie, grabbing her so he could hold her in his arms.)

Damon(whispering): Okay, I got ya...

(Bonnie yelps as Damon rips out the arrow, he bites into his wrist, ready to heal her, when... Kai rushes forward to grab the ascendant.)

Bonnie: DAMON, NO!

(Damon super speeds to Kai and shoves him at the wall, they struggle with each other, Kai drops the ascendant. Bonnie, knowing nobody notices her, drags herself across the ground to the ascendant, tears in her eyes. Kai stabs Damon with an arrow, Damon grunts in pain, he tries to take it out)

[ CORNFIELDS, AT TYLER'S CAR ]

(Tyler is roughly slamming his hands into his victim's chest, trying to save him.)

Tyler: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? LIV, LIV STOP! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?

(Liv is nearly in tears. and holds tight until finally the guy stops struggling and the life leaves his eyes. Dead. Tyler is in horror.)

Liv: You didn't kill him Tyler.

(She looks up at him.)

I did.

(Then she gets up and abruptly leaves.)

[ CORN MAZE ]

(Elena finds Liam squatting over a girl, who is gasping for breath.)

Elena: Hey.

The ambulances have arrived.

Jo said to let the paramedics take it from here.

Liam: I don't think she can wait.

(Elena gets to her knees. Putting two fingers to the girl's throat.)

Elena: Her windpipe, it's...

Liam: Deviated is the medical term.

Screwed is more like it.

Either way, she's not getting enough air.

Elena(softly): Liam, I can help.

Liam: Good.

Stabilize her head while I trache her.

(Elena holds down the girl's head.)

Elena: Have you ever done this before?

Liam: Practiced on a grapefruit.

Didn't end well.

(He has a pen in his hand.)

Elena: No, Liam.

That's not what I meant.

I can actually...

(She's ready to bite into her wrist when Liam stabs the girl in the neck with the pen, the girl gasps and begins to breathe.)

Elena: It worked.

You actually did it.

(She smiles at him.)

Liam(breathing deeply): Don't sound so surprised.

(The corn field is full of ambulances, paramedics and Elena gets into the car, and when Liam's ready to get inside he looks around for a moment, his eyes landed on a group of people and then finally he realizes the girl Elena healed is not wounded anymore, she's smiling and walking perfectly. He's confused.)

[ UNDERGROUND, OTHERWORLDLY ]

(Damon and Kai are still fighting, Bonnie is bleeding out, as she crawls over to the ascendant. The eclipse is fully overhead. Kai flips Damon over as he attempts to push the arrow in deeper. Bonnie reaches the ascendant. Grabs it. Kai twists the arrow in Damon.)

(Kai is flung away from Damon, he hits the ground along with the arrow. And Damon turns trying to grab for the rock because he knows what Bonnie is trying to do. But his hands slip easily from the rock as he is dragged underneath the eclipse light. When he gets there, Bonnie tosses the ascendant to him.)

Kai: DON'T!

(The ascendant untwists and clicks in his hand.)

Damon (desperate to save bonnie): NO.

(The ascendant twists one more, a definite click.)

Damon: NO!

(Damon is brought up into the light, and with a flash...He is gone. The only thing left is the ascendant, which shatters as it drops to the ground. Kai screams loudly. And Bonnie smiles, knowing Damon made it. The tear finally falls from her eye as she crumbles to the ground, letting out a grunt of pain. And suddenly, she's silent.)

[ screen goes black ]

[ WHITMORE MEDICAL CENTER ]

(Jo is sitting up on a bed in the hospital hall, her arm is wrapped with gauze. Alaric approaches her with a coffee and hands it to her.)

Alaric: How you feeling?

Jo: You really want to know?

Because I'm hopped up on pain meds and just obnoxious enough to tell you.

Alaric(smirks): I'll take my chances.

Jo(laughs): I think you're great.

You're brave, funny, not to mention maybe the most attractive man I've ever seen, and I feel completely comfortable telling you this because I'm old enough to know what I want.

And call me crazy, but I think I was meant to know you.

(She pauses, waiting for a response.)

Jo: This is the part where you say something or kiss me or run for the hills.

Alaric: Yeah, I, um.

I think you're amazing, brilliant, and one of the sexiest women I have ever met, and I would love to believe that you and I were meant to be because I would love to believe there was a plan for me other than this life that I am living right now.

(Suddenly he stares deep into her eyes, compelling her.)

Alaric: But tonight was a disaster.

You thought I was boring and a borderline alcoholic, and because you don't know me, not the real me anyway, you don't want to kiss me, and you absolutely want me to run for the hills.

(Ivy turns, veins crawling underneath her eyes and zips forward to bite him but there are tranquilizer gunshots. She falls limp, and he drags her toward his car, he dumps her inside. Caroline witnesses the whole scene, her eyes wide from her car.)

[ IN WHITMORE ]

(Elena and Liam are walking toward her door.)

Liam: So that girl dressed like lady Whitmore, I was ready to give up on her, and you were able to save her.

How?

Elena: I don't know.

Beginner's luck?

Liam: Elena, she should have died.

Elena: And she didn't.

There are crazy, mysterious things in the world, I mean, some things science can't explain. Liam: Name one.

Elena(stopping and turning to him): Ok.

Um...

Why does a baby take its first breath?

Liam(shrugging): A reflex.

The fluid in a newborn's lungs are...

(Elena rushes and kisses him.)

Liam: I thought kissing me was a fate worse then death.

Elena(smiling): You asked me what my type is.

You were a hero tonight, an absolutely jaw-dropping and out-of-this-world hero.

That's my type.

(They smile at each other.)

[ AT LIV'S JOB ]

(Liv has gotten finished stacking napkins and the look on her face is sad. She hears the door open.)

Liv: We're closed.

(It's Tyler.)

Tyler: I talked to Elena.

Liv: Still closed.

Tyler: She said everyone else lived.

(Tyler slowly walks toward her.)

You don't want to talk about what happened?

Liv: I've got nothing to say.

Tyler: You killed someone tonight.

(Liv has her back turned to him, and her eyes are watery)

You can't just pretend that didn't happen.

Liv: Watch me.

Tyler(tilting his head): Liv.

(She doesn't answer so he approaches her.)

Liv. He was dead.

There was nothing you could have done to save him, so you saved me instead.

(He reaches over and takes her hand.)

You. Saved.

Me.

I can never repay you for that.

All I can do is promise you that I won't waste it.

(Liv stares at him with tears running down her face. And they stare at each other.)

[THE SALVATORE CRYPT]

(Stefan opens the door and steps inside. His eyes are sad, he sighs. Lifting the Bourbon to his lips and drinking it)

Stefan(looking around): Ahh.

(He laughs bitterly.)

Stefan: Yep... This is happening.

I'm gonna talk out loud to a...

A crypt filled with my dead family.

(His eyes search around the crypt.)

Stefan: Everyone but you, Damon.

Because wherever you are, it's not here.

(He takes a seat on a small bench.)

Stefan, looking down: I got to say...I'm not doing so great...without you.

I keep trying to start over, but... I can't get anywhere...

(His eyes sadden.)

Stefan: Because I'm lost, brother, I'm lost.

(He gets up angrily and tosses the bottle of Bourbon when... suddenly, a hand catches the Bourbon. It's Damon. Stefan's eyes widen, it's like tears are on the verge of coming out.)Damon(using his snarky tone): So what?

Gone a couple of months, you think it's okay to waste a perfectly good bottle of Bourbon?